Jared Allen fined $21,000 for season-ending hit

Bears guard Lance Louis is out for the season, and Vikings defensive end Jared Allen is out about 3 percent of a game check.

According to Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times, Allen was fined $21,000 for last week’s hit on the Bears guard, which left Louis with a torn ACL. Allen’s weekly game checks are just over $683,000.

Allen said he wasn’t trying to hurt Louis on the interception return by teammate Antoine Winfield, although replays showed him leaving his feet before the hit.

“I thought it was a legal hit. He’s running to make a tackle, so I just made a block,” Allen said. “I turned around, he was trying to make a tackle, and I threw myself into him. Just trying to make a block, just like we’re taught.

“I’m never trying to hurt anybody. I’m trying to make a block and spring our guy. It’s unfortunate.”

Louis was essentially the best blocker on a bad offensive line, and the Bears signed veteran Andre Gurode for depth in his absence.

JA should have to sit the rest of the year as well. A whopping 3% of your single game check for ending a guys season on a cheap shot is doing nothing but promoting the cheap shots.
Make them start missing games and game checks equal to the amount of time the injured person is out would bring these cheap shots to a sudden stop.

Blocking the guy was okay, but leaving his feet wasn’t — the fine was deserved. However, for any Bears fans (or Pack fans trolling and pretending to be), I wonder how much outrage they would have had if Urlacher had done the same thing to Kalil or why no outrage over Briggs making a similar hit on Rudolph.

Maybe if the bears QB didnt flick ball at opposing CB after play was done and rubbing it in by going for two point conversion when they were alredy up 17 points then maybe Allen wouldnt had to end your best linemen season just keeping real bears fan cause i would of done the same if i was allen

Wow. Must be nice to be goodell’s butt buddy. He ends someone’s season on an illegal blind side hit and only gets 21 k? Ndamukong Suh inadvertently kicked schaub in the balls and gets fined 30 k. See something wrong here?

Would like to say I am surprised by this tiny fine for Allen, but I am not.

I played the game and I can appreciate tough/hard hits and blocks that are within the rules, but Allen’s hit was unnecessary and appears to be a deliberate attempt to seriously hurt another player. One of my favorite players of all time, Sean Taylor, performed a similar unnecessary hit on that poor Punter in the pro-bowl.

Just don’t understand the point of laying someone out like that. Yeah Louis should of had his head up, but getting put on IR is a way over the top price to pay to learn not to do that.

Allen could of dialed it back a bit and still put a nice/hard hit on Louis that would of got Allen, or Louis, featered on ESPN.

Keep your own head up, Allen, because someone will pay you back nicely for this hit if the opportunity ever presents itself.

These things happen in football. It aint always fair. This hit probably was a karma wagon leveling Louis. The Bears have been pretty clean on the injury list this year so far, & as the tired but true statement says-it is what it is.

Well, I’m not one to hope for injuries that help my team win, but I honestly hope someone ends his season this week. The difference is, with or without him the Packers are going to flat out destroy Minny.

Also, why suddenly such a focus on the ridiculously small amount these fines are for guys making millions? As if this is breaking news. They’ve never been anything more than a token gesture to make it look, legally, as if they gave a gd about player safety. Either do away with the stupid fines to begin with, make them sign waivers, and play football. Or, make the fines 6 or 7 figures and make these guys get serious. 21K here and there is just a lot of window dressing.

I can just imagine what would be said when or if Jared Allen gets his season taken away on a chop block….. He wouldn’t be quite so cavelere about it being a clean, or legal hit.
You can also bet , that who ever laid his ass out , would be fined more than 3% of a game check…..

It was an illegal hit and not necessary but I don’t think Jared Allen intended to hurt anybody. He saw a chance to lay a cheap block on a guy that wasn’t looking and took it. He should be fined more though.

“Blocking the guy was okay, but leaving his feet wasn’t — the fine was deserved. ”

Leaving your feet isn’t illegal, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about. If he hit him low it would have been a penalty.

“Just don’t understand the point of laying someone out like that. Yeah Louis should of had his head up, but getting put on IR is a way over the top price to pay to learn not to do that.”

This is tackle football, when you block someone your intention is to take them out of the play completely, and then go find someone else to block. If you don’t like that contact you don’t play
in the NFL.

Let not forget, Louis hurt his knee on the play, hitting him high had nothing to do with his injury.

When will the powers that be come to their senses and start fining by percentage?

$21k to Jared Allen doesn’t mean nearly as much as it does to a player making the league minimum. However fining at 25% of a game check makes the pain of it appropriate no matter what you’re getting paid.

Jared Allen was the victim of a hit that was an intentional attempt to hurt him. It did hurt him pretty bad. Do you know what he did? He jumped up and went after the guy that did it. Even though he was hurt, he played the next week.

“Maybe if the bears QB didnt flick ball at opposing CB after play was done and rubbing it in by going for two point conversion when they were alredy up 17 points then maybe Allen wouldnt had to end your best linemen season just keeping real bears fan cause i would of done the same if i was allen”

Right…Louis deserved to have his season ended because your feelings were hurt…Glad I don’t know you personally.

Jared Allen was not and is not out to intentionally hurt anyone. He plays the game full speed, every down. He is a class act and his commitment to excellence puts him at the core of the heart and soul of that Vikings defense.

The people calling for his suspension are nuts.

What the NFL needs to do is take away the helmets and pads. That will pretty much eliminate accidents where a player gets hurt because another player launched into him.

Launching was illegal, but Louis was absolutely in position to make a tackle on Winfield. Go watch the video on the front page of SI.com. Allen got fined for launching which was the only “dirty” thing about that play.